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What to Expect During a Primary Care Visit

Mesa Family Physician

What to Expect During a Primary Care Visit Visiting a primary care provider for the first time can bring up many questions. Whether you’re establishing care with a new physician or attending a new patient visit , understanding the process can help you feel more confident and prepared. What Is a Primary Care Visit?

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Electronic consultation questions asked to addiction medicine specialists by primary care providers: Retrospective content analysis

Canadian Family Physician

Objective To determine the major themes among clinical questions asked to addiction medicine specialists sent by primary care providers (PCPs) via the Champlain Building Access to Specialists through the eConsultation (BASE™) electronic consultation (eConsult) service and the PCP-perceived benefits of this service.

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Automatic Detection of Osteoporosis in Electronic Consultation (eConsult) Service Using Natural Language Processing [Health care informatics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context The primary care practitioners’ (PCP) perceptions of disease given patients’ conditions are reflected in their narrated questions to specialists while using eConsult, an online primary care service.

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Using eConsult to access specialist advice for persons living with dementia - A cross-sectional analysis [Geriatrics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Though dementia can be managed in primary care, the complexity of the condition and high prevalence of multimorbidity often require advice from a variety of specialists. Travel to see consultants can be disorienting and difficult for persons living with dementia (PLWD). Context: Dementia affects nearly half a million Canadians.

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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

GeriPal

Eric: Well, what are the odds that two family members focus on a similar topic and do research together? laughter] Alex: We love the family theme. They know what their dog’s name are sometimes, which we don’t even have from a primary care level, and so that’s kind of a fascinating lens of opportunity.

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